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There is sometimes confusion over upgrades, if you can just upgrade to the next version, or if there is an CU (Cumulative Update) or UR (Update Rollup) minimum level that is required BEFORE a major version upgrade. The MAJOR VERSION upgrade path is below, which Marnix talked about HERE. This article covers IN PLACE upgrades…

Update Rollup 3 (UR3) for OpsMgr 2012 SP1 shipped originally several months back. I took a cautious approach to this update, as there were some components pulled early for DPM (all have been resolved). Does not look like anything was an issue in SCOM, beyond the known issues documented at the bottom of this article. …

I recently did a deep dive on how to apply UR2 to System Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager. http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2013/04/11/applying-update-rollup-2-ur2-to-opsmgr-2012-sp1.aspx The following article covers some of the other System Center 2012 SP1 components, such as Orchestrator, App Controller, and Service Manager. The KB article and download links are located at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2802159 Orchestrator 2012…

Update Rollup 2 (UR2) for OpsMgr 2012 SP1 has shipped. This post will be a simple walk-through of applying it. This hotfix is included on my Hotfix page for SCOM: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2009/01/27/which-hotfixes-should-i-apply.aspx Description and download location: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2802159 Description of fixes in this release: The Web Console performance is very poor when a view…

Available at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2790831/en-us This hotfix addresses an issue found in Windows Server 2012 (and Win8) that can be exposed when performance data is queried via WMI. Products that regularly query WMI for performance data are SCOM, SCVMM, and SCDPM. Since ConfigMgr also depends on WMI so heavily, you might consider this for Win8…

There is a new feature added to the R2 Cumulative Update 4 hotfix, which I recently wrote about HERE. This new feature enables the OpsMgr Management Server to tolerate a SQL outage hosting the OperationsManager database better in specific cases. This feature is NOT enabled by default, by design. In order to enable this feature…

****NOTE OpsMgr 2007 R2 CU5 is now shipped and this is an old article. http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/08/03/opsmgr-2007-r2-cu5-rollup-hotfix-ships-and-my-experience-installing-it.aspx The KB article describing the fixes, changes, and instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2449679 Get it from the download Center: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=39a871e0-d996-4568-be5d-2edb6f539330 List of all OpsMgr R2 Cumulative Updates: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2453149 ***Caution: There is a known issue documented in the KB…

The core MP’s have been updated on their regular schedule. If you are running OpsMgr 2007 R2 – you should update these as soon as possible. You can get the update here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=61365290-3c38-4004-b717-e90bb0f6c148 I have updated my recommended hotfix page to include these here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2009/01/27/which-hotfixes-should-i-apply.aspx Note: If you have downloaded previous core…

I recently wrote about my experience installing CU3. The CU3 download is 1.2GB in size. The primary reason for this, is the integration of the Cross Platform CU3 with the core OpsMgr CU3. Previously, this shipped separately. Since the cross platform components are integrated in R2, it is a good idea to make sure a…

****NOTE OpsMgr 2007 R2 CU5 is now shipped and this is an old article. http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/08/03/opsmgr-2007-r2-cu5-rollup-hotfix-ships-and-my-experience-installing-it.aspx ***Note: I recommend reading this article all the way through…. things didn’t go exactly as I’d expected, and there are some very critical order-of-operations steps to be aware of. There is a known issue where the SDK…

The SP1 Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) for OpsMgr 2007 SP1 has shipped Get it from the download Center: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=62b6c324-38b9-47df-bd89-a62908f0b642 The KB article describing the fixes, changes, and instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2028594 If you are running OpsMgr 2007 R2 – disregard. This is for…

Here is something that a customer brought to my attention, and is probably impacting you already. They noticed that WMI on some of their Server 2008R2 monitored agents was consuming a large amount of memory – and continually increasing. I started tracking this in SCOM by writing a rule to collect the Process\Private…

****NOTE OpsMgr 2007 R2 CU5 is now shipped and this is an old article. http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/08/03/opsmgr-2007-r2-cu5-rollup-hotfix-ships-and-my-experience-installing-it.aspx The Cumulative Update 2 (CU2) for OpsMgr 2007 R2 has shipped Get it from the download Center: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=61714687-668a-46e4-b127-ad8519594351 The KB article describing the fixes, changes, and instructions: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/979257 This is not a huge…

(Or – How to patch a RMS Cluster in 14 easy steps) I had a previous blog post on this subject that I have since taken down. This has been a “fuzzy” area really since Microsoft shipped OpsMgr 2007, mostly just because there was no official guidelines or instructions on the “right” way to…

****NOTE OpsMgr 2007 R2 CU5 is now shipped and this is an old article. http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinholman/archive/2011/08/03/opsmgr-2007-r2-cu5-rollup-hotfix-ships-and-my-experience-installing-it.aspx ——————————————————————– The KB article describing the fixes and changes: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974144 There are MANY fixes in this update for R2 – and I am not going to go through each one. Just understand – I…

I have written many articles in the past on HealthService restarts. A HealthService restart is when the agent breaches a pre-set threshold of Memory use, or handle count use, and OpsMgr bounces the agent HealthService to try and correct the condition. The Past: Here are a few of the previous articles: http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2009/03/26/are-your-agents-restarting-every-10-minutes-are-you-sure.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/kevinholman/archive/2009/06/22/health-service-and-monitoringhost-thresholds-in-r2-how-this-has-changed-and-what-you-should-know.aspx Generally…

If you cannot or will not upgrade to OpsMgr 2007 R2 anytime soon – then this hotfix is for you! Available at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971541 This updates OpsMgr 2007 SP1 to 6.0.6278.100. This is a rollup covering many new issues, plus most of the previously released critical hotfixes for OpsMgr. I recommend this rollup hotfix for anyone…

Sometimes agents either will not “talk” to the management server upon initial installation, and sometimes an agent can get unhealthy long after working fine. Agent health is an ongoing task of any OpsMgr Admin’s life. This post in NOT an “end to end” manual of all the factors that influence agent health…. but that is…

You might see alerts, or critical state health of your RMS in your environment, caused by the handle count being very high on the HealthService. Typically – you will see this on an RMS that is running on an x64 operating system, especially if you have a large amount of RAM. We change state…

Randomly, you might see a single MonitoringHost.exe process on an agent, consuming 100% CPU. (Or 50%, or 25% depending on how many cores you have). This process will stay at this level, and will not recover. If you restart the OpsMgr HealthService, the problem goes away, and might not return for days or even weeks….